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NEW-YORK. 



BY LYMAN BEECHER, D. D. 



OF BOSTON, MASS. 






PRINTED BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER, 
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SERMON. 



Isaiah xlix. 24, 25. — Thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the 
mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered. 

Isaiah iiii. 12. — Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and 
he shall divide the spoil with the strong"; because he hath poured out his 
soul unto death. 

Luke xi. 21, 22. — When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his 
goods are in peace; but when a stronger than he shall come upon him } 
and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor wherein he trusted^ 
and divideth his spoils. 

Rev. xi. 15.— And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices' 
in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms 
of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. 

Rev. xix. 5, 6. — And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our 
God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. And 
I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of 
many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia; 
for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. 

The Scriptures teach, that sin commenced its reign 
on earth under the auspices of a mighty fallen 
spirit; and that he, having seduced mankind from 
their allegiance to God, has been constantly employed 
to maintain his bad eminence over them. They also 
teach, that the Son of God has interposed to destroy 
the works of this spirit; and that he will accomplish 
the object: that the power of Satan shall be broken; 
and the whole world be restored to loyalty and the 
favor of Heaven. 



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The passages, which have just been recited, allude 
to the success with which the enemy of God has 
fortified his cause—to its final overthrow — and to 
the exultation and joy with which the event will 
fill earth and heaven. 

I am aware, that with some, the doctrine of fallen 
angels is but an eastern allegory; and the idea of a 
conflict, between the creature and Creator, ridiculous 
and unworthy of the divine supremacy. I can only 
say, that if there be not an order of sinful intelligen- 
ces above men, the Bible is one of the most deceptive 
books ever written. The entire history of the world 
shows, that human depravity, though operating in 
accordance with the laws of mind, is yet methodised 
and wielded with a comprehension of plan, wholly 
inexplicable upon the principle of accidental coinci- 
dence among men. That there should have been a 
system of w T ell-constructed opposition to the Gospel , 
varying with circumstances, and comprehending the 
great amount of bad moral influence which has ex- 
isted, without some presiding intellect, is as impro- 
bable, as that all the particles of matter which com- 
pose the universe, should have fallen into their ex- 
isting method and order by mere accident, and 
without the presiding intellect of the Deity. And as 
to moral competition between the creature and the 
Creator, it exists, even if there be no fallen angels. 
It is a matter of fact before our eyes — a matter of 
experience too — that the carnal mind is enmity 
against God; and that God, in Christ, is reconciling 
the world to himself. 



It should be remembered also, that when God has 
formed moral beings, even he can govern them, as 
such, only by moral influence, and in accordance 
with the laws of mind: mere omnipotence being as 
irrelevant to the government of mind, as moral influ- 
ence would be to the government of the material 
universe. Nor must it be forgotten, that an alienated 
world requires more moral power for its restoration 
than that of simple law, which proved insufficient to 
maintain its allegiance. It requires a new moral 
influence so introduced and applied, as to corroborate 
law, and strengthen the loyalty of all the good, 
while rebels are reconciled and pardoned. 

The reconciliation, through Christ, of such a world 
as this, in opposition to the rooted aversion of every 
heart, the concentrated power of social wickedness, 
and the ceaseless counteraction of mighty intelli- 
gences, principalities, and powers, does not seem to 
us an achievement unworthy of that Being, who 
numbers the hairs of our head. By prophets and 
apostles, it is represented as exhibiting the height 
and depth, and length and breadth, of the wisdom, 
and goodness, and power of God. 

In this discourse, it is proposed to consider the 

DEFENCES AND RESOURCES OF THE ENEMY, AND THE 
MEANS OF THEIR OVERTHROW. 

We shall suppose, as the language of the text 
does, that the Christianity, which is to prevail on 
earth, is the Christianity of the heart, rising to high 
eminence, and extending its blessed influence through 
all the relations of society, until the kingdoms of this 
world shall become associations of holiness — the Gos- 



pel become the predominant spring of action, and 
its morality the governing rule of all mankind. The 
array of opposition to such a glorious change on 
earth, now demands our attention. 

1. At the head of opposition to the Gospel, in 
numerical power, must be placed Idolatry. To 
banish from the earth all knowledge of God and his 
government, and substitute a worship composed of 
lust and blood, seems most desirable to the great 
adversary, where circumstances allow it to be done: 
and this he has achieved in respect to about six 
hundred millions of the human family. In all that 
world of mind, knowledge is in deep eclipse, intellect 
slumbers, conscience is paralysed, and all holy inter- 
course between earth and heaven is cut off; while 
passion and appetite, inflamed by sin, are suffered 
to prey uncontrolled. 

2. The next form of opposition to the march of 
holiness, is that of Imposture. This was introduced 
by Mahommed. It was a system accommodated to the 
condition of a mingled population, composed of 
Pagans, Jews, and nominal Christians, all in a state 
of great ignorance and deep moral debasement. By 
complimenting Abraham and Moses, he beguiled the 
Jew; by conceding to the Saviour the rank of a 
prophet, he seduced the degenerate Christian; and by 
giving ample license to sensuality, in time and eterni- 1 
ty, he secured the Pagan: and what persuasion failed 
to accomplish, was finished by the sword. Thus one 
hundred and forty millions have been grouped together 
under the most ferocious and horrid despotism that 
ever warred against Heaven, or tormented man. Over 



ail these the smoke from the bottomless pit ha.s 
ascended, intercepting the light of heaven, and doom- 
ing them for centuries to "darkness visible." 

3. Cotemporaneously with this system of impos- 
ture, and like it a subject of prophecy, arose the 
Papal superstition., in the form of a corrupted Chris- 
tianity, and adapted to a state of intellectual improve- 
ment where the grossness of Mahommedan imposture 
might not be likely to prevail. This has been, and 
is still, the master-piece of that wisdom which is from 
beneath; concentrating the bad influence of all past 
systems; satisfactory to the pagan, and not alarming 
to the degenerate Christian; dazzling through the 
medium of sense; and giving such a license to sin, or 
such a cheap escape from its penalties, as allayed all 
fear, and gave a license to boundless indulgence. 

Until this horrid system arose, the resistance made 
to the church of God had been planted without her 
walls. Now the sacred citadel is assailed and enter- 
ed. Her friends are driven out, subjected to obloquy 
and death. The perverted authority of Heaven, and 
the sacred name of Christianity herself, and all the 
glorious and fearful sanctions of eternity are arrayed 
against the pure Gospel. Instead of the fold of Christ, 
the church became a ferocious beast, not sparing the 
flock: instead of a pure virgin, the mother of harlots, 
corrupting the nations. Instead of reflecting the light 
of the Sun of righteousness, every orb was eclipsed, 
every candlestick removed out of its place; while the 
night of ages settled down upon the earth. In this 
tremendous period, knowledge and virtue expired, 
and corruption and violence, as before the flood, filled 



the earth. The great merchandise was in the souls 
of men: the chief staples, indulgences to sin; and 
nothing but holiness of heart and life was absolutely 
unpardonable. 

Here, around the standard of Christ, the kings of 
the earth took counsel against the Lord and his 
Anointed, to break his bands and cast away his cords. 
And here the atheist and the Jew, the infidel and the 
libertine, could wear the sacred vestments, and make 
war upon the Saviour and his friends. 

Popery is a system, where science and ignorance, 
refinement and barbarism, wisdom and stupidity, taste 
and animalism, mistaken zeal and malignant enmity, 
may sanctimoniously pour out their virulence against 
the Gospel, and cry, Hosanna, while they go forth to 
shed the blood, and to wear out the patience of the 
saints. And though by revolutions it has been shaken, 
and compelled by motives of policy to cease a little 
from blood, not a principle of this system has been 
abandoned. All the wiles of ages past are put in re- 
quisition now, to heal the fatal wounds which the 
beast has received; and to render the system still 
more powerful and terrific. The leaven is in secret 
and in open operation, in this country; and the quick 
action of the beast to the touch of the spear, in Pales- 
tine, shows that he is neither dead nor asleep. And 
considering the civilization, and wealth, and science, 
which the system comprehends, it is from Popery, no 
doubt, that the Gospel is destined to experience the 
last and most determined resistance. 

4. Another form of resistance to the Gospel is to be 
anticipated from the despotic governments of the earth 



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— so inconsistent in their influence with that illumi- 
nation of mind and melioration of heart, which, it is 
predicted, shall prevail, and which the blessed Gospel 
never fails to produce. Hence it may be expected, 
that despots will take counsel against the Lord, as 
the march of intellect, and piety, and civil liberty, 
shall minister alarm. 

To what extent forcible resistance will be made to 
the Gospel, it is not our object now to inquire; or 
whether republican forms of government will supplant 
the ancient dynasties. It is enough to know, that all 
the governments who yield to the intimations of that 
Providence which sends out religion and civil liberty 
upon the earth, will be safe and happy; and that all 
who make resistance, will be agitated by revolutions, 
and destroyed by heavy judgments. Be wise now, 
therefore, ye kings; and be instructed, ye judges of 
the earth: serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with 
trembling: kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye per- 
ish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a 



5. Another source of resistance to Christianity, is 
that of crime in its varied forms. A vast amount of 
capital is embarked in enterprises, which directly or 
indirectly war against morality. All this, when the 
spirit of Christianity shall prevail, will be contraband, 
and be withdrawn. The power of steam shall not 
needlessly violate holy time, nor the sail, without 
cause, whiten in the Sabbath sun, and spread itself to 
pervert the breath of heaven. Theatres, those 
"schools of morality," falsely so called, shall cease to 

beguile unstable souls, whose feet go down to death, 

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whose steps take hold on hell. Christianity, as she 
prevails, will form a public sentiment that will make 
virtue blush at the thought of meeting within the same 
walls, and breathing the same polluted air, and ap- 
plauding the same exhibitions, with the most debased 
and wretched portion of the community. All who 
thrive and grow rich amid the desolations of inebria- 
tion, and all who desire to do wickedly without loss 
of reputation, or annoyance of conscience, will feel 
instinctively the approach of religion: and as their 
craft shall be in danger, will raise a loud and bitter 
cry- — 'Great is Diana. Great is Diana.' 

Nor are the maxims of more reputable trade in such 
nice accordance with the "golden rule," as to need 
no revision, or to present no resistance to Christianity 
as she moves on to make it the universal actual law of 
commercial intercourse: while the entire world of 
honor must be expected to stand against that Gospel 
which forbids murder, and inculcates forgiveness, and 
arrays public sentiment against the guilty. 

If the Gospel would prohibit only acknowledged 
immoralities, and wink at human weaknesses, the 
whole pleasure-loving world would consent to an 
armistice, and permit her to move on without much 
complaint. But the inexorable requisitions of purity 
of heart and self-denial, cannot fail to bring out 
against her a multitudinous and determined resist- 
ance. The haters of her uncharitableness, and the 
lovers of a more liberal way, and all classes of the 
openly wicked, will, it may be expected, as the light 
increases and enmity rises, be condensed into a firmer 
and firmer phalanx of opposition. And now will the 



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alarm be sounded about popery and priest-craft, by just 
that class of men, who, in papal countries, love dark- 
ness, and most cheerfully purchase indulgences to sin; 
and who, in this country, should the darkness of po- 
pery be permitted to come upon us, would be the first 
to hail it as a covert for their crimes and a quietus for 
their consciences. And yet panic-struck will many 
become about liberty of conscience, who long since 
have ceased to have any conscience; and suddenly 
will many fall in love with civil liberty, who, all their 
days and with all their might, have, by their per- 
nicious influence, been employed in attempts to un- 
dermine her deep foundations. 

6. To cover the nakedness of this forlorn hope of 
opposition to the Gospel, a more liberal sort of re- 
ligion must be introduced, which shall keep them in 
countenance, and enable them to wield the name and 
institutions of Christianity against Christianity — 
including so much truth as may serve to beguile, but 
so little as cannot avail to save-— sustained by such 
as live in pleasure, and will not bow the knee to 
Christ. The time will have come, when the light 
of science and of Christianity will have rendered 
obsolete the grossness of idolatry, the imposture of 
Mahommed, the superstitions of popery, and the im- 
purity of infidelity. A religion must rise, therefore, 
under the last touchings and finishings of art, where 
infidels may be received without conversion; and 
where they may be converted with scarce a percep- 
tible change in doctrine, heart, or life; and where^ 
as in papal countries, the thoughtless, and the gay, 
and the beautiful, and the dissipated, may float to- 



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gether down the stream, to the sounds of music? 
and drink the lethean cup, and wake not till their 
redemption has ceased for ever. All this abomina- 
tion of desolation is predicted, as attending the last 
triumphs of pure Christianity. And he said, Go 
thy way, Daniel, for the words are closed up, and 
sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be puri- 
fied, and made white, and tried: but the wicked 
shall do wickedly, and none of the ivicked shall 
understand; but the ivise shall understand. 

7. One other source of opposition to the progress 
of vital Christianity remains to he mentioned. There 
may be an attempt to wield the church against 
herself, by corrupting the purity of revivals of re- 
ligion. Terrible, by the power of revivals, as an 
army with banners, her victory is secure, unless 
fanaticism can be substituted for pure religion, and 
her compact masses be broken and scattered by the 
commotion of unhallowed passions within. In this 
manner w^as the glory of the Reformation eclipsed, 
and vital religion, in the time of Cromwell, made a 
scoff and a by-word. The same attempt was made 
in New-England early in the days of our fathers. 
It was repeated in the time of Whitefosld and the 
immortal Edwards, with lamentable, though with 
hut partial success. As revivals shall become more 
extensive, and the Spirit of God shall awaken larger 
portions of the community at once, opportunity will 
be afforded to the enemy— and, apprised of his de- 
vices, we ought not to think that the opportunity 
will be neglected — of mingling false fire with holy 
zeal, for the purpose of throwing discredit upon a 



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work which threatens a speedy overthrow of his 
empire. 

All these great divisions of systematic opposition 
to the Gospel have, where circumstances allowed, 
been defended by the sword. Christianity, in her 
first attempts to disenthral the world, met the storms 
of ten persecutions, protracted through a period of 
three hundred years. 

The false prophet established, and still maintains, 
his empire by force. It is death to turn from Ma- 
hommed to Jesus Christ. And as to Popery, in her 
dominions, all the wiles and corruptions of idolatry 

iand imposture have been condensed and wielded 
with infernal wisdom and malignity against the 
Gospel, ever since the apocalyptic kings gave their 
power to the beast. And when atheism, for a little 
moment, abolished popery, its terrific power was, 
at the same moment, directed with indiscriminate 
fury against Christianity. The Bible was burnt: 
the Sabbath blotted out: the existence of God 
denied: and death proclaimed an eternal sleep. 

The Arian heresy, protected by the sword, wielded 
against the truth a furious persecution. In Holland, 
Arminius attempted to enlist both literature and the 
civil arm for the propagation of his sentiments, and, 
to some extent, succeeded. At Geneva, the enemies 
of evangelical sentiment, as appears from recent 
events, do not rely on charity, and enlightened 
reason, and liberty of conscience; but upon the civil 
power, to protect them in their usurpations, and to 
keep back the truth. 

And now. can such varied and mighty resistance 



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be overcome? Can the earth be enlightened? Can 
the nations be disenthralled? Can the whole creation, 
which has groaned and travailed together in pain 
until now, be brought out of bondage into glorious 
liberty? Yes: all this can be done, and will be done. 
Our next inquiry then is, 

By what Means shall events so desirable be 



accomplished: 



First — By the judgments of Heaven, in which the 
Son of Man will come upon the strong man armed, 
and take away his armor. 

Secondly — By the universal propagation of the 
Gospel; before the light of which, idolatry, impos- 
ture, and superstition, will retreat abashed. And, 

Thirdly — By frequent, and, at last, general revi- 
vals of religion; giving resistless power to the Gos- 
pel, as it is preached to every creature. 

Then will come to pass that which is written. 
Great voices will be heard in heaven, saying, The 
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of 
our Lord and of his Christ: as the voice of many 
waters, and of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia, 
for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. 

It is manifest from prophecy, and clearly to be 
anticipated from the existing state of the world, that 
great commotions and distress of nations will exist, 
antecedent to the spiritual, universal reign of Christ 
on the earth. Some have supposed that these calami- 
ties will fall alike upon the church and the world; 
that as yet the witnesses are to be slain; and that, 
for three years at least, Christianity will seem to be 
blotted from the earth. Whereas, manifestly, the 



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judgments which are to precede the glory of the 
latter day, are to fall almost exclusively upon anti- 
christian nations. And if the witnesses are yet to 
be slain, they are to be slain in the street of that 
great city, which, spiritually, is called "Sodom and 
Egypt" — prophetic symbols, which have been under- 
stood to designate countries subject to the dominion 
of x^ntichrist. The very struggle to suppress vital 
Christianity in papal countries, called the slaying of 
the witnesses, may be, and probably will be, the re- 
sult of moral causes now in powerful operation. 
Science, and commerce, and the progress of evangeli- 
cal religion, are fast apprising mankind of their 
rights, and awakening the desire of civil and religious 
liberty. And this slaying of the witnesses may be 
the last struggle of those despotisms, to arrest the 
march of truth and freedom. It may be the collision 
between light and darkness — between despotism and 
liberty — which shall call out the kings of the earth 
to the battle of the great day of God Almighty; when 
He, whose eyes are as a flame of iire, on whose 
head are many crowns, and whose vesture is dipped 
in blood, shall smite the nations with the sword that 
goeth out of his mouth, and rule them with a rod of 
iron, and tread the wine-press of the fierceness and 
wrath of Almighty God; when the angel standing in 
the sun, shall summon the fowls of the heavens to 
the supper of the great God — to eat the flesh of 
kings, and of captains, and of mighty men.* 

But without attempting a minute exposition of 
prophecy, nothing is more plainly revealed, than the 

* Rev, xix, 17, 18, 



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visitation of the earth with unparalleled judgments 
and revolutions, preparatory to that state of light and 
peace which is to bless the world. So long as Satan 
can wield the power of despotic governments against 
the truth, he can hold his goods in peace. But these 
defences a Stronger than he will take away, when, 
in awful judgments, He shall come upon him. He 
shall overturn, and overturn, until He, whose right it 
is, shall reign. The day of vengeance is in his 
heart, because the year of his redeemed is come. The 
foundations of the earth do shake; the earth is utterly 
broken down; the earth is clean dissolved; the earth is 
moved exceedingly, the earth shall reel to and fro; 
and the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones 
that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the 
earth; and they shall be gathered together as prisoners 
are gathered in the pit; and shall be shut up in the 
prison. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the 
sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall 
reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before 
his ancients gloriously. And the seventh angel 
poured out his vial into the air; and there were voices, 
and thunderings, and lightnings, and there was a 
great earthquake, such as was not since men were 
upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great. 

One of these moral earthquakes has already shaken 
Europe to its centre; and the thunderings and heav- 
ings of the unquiet earth proclaim, that one wo is 
past, and behold, another wo cometh quickly. 

When these systems of physical resistance are de- 
stroyed, then will the time have come to extend the 
institutions of the Gospel throughout the world. Be- 



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nevolence, like the air, will move to fill up the vacuum. 
Like the light from its great fountain, it will fly to 
cheer the nations who sit in darkness. And having 
no resistance to encounter, but the simple power of 
error, the conflict will be but momentary, and the 
victory complete. This also is in accordance with 
prophecy: for immediately after the downfall of Baby- 
lon is announced, all heaven breaks forth in ecstasy, 
saying, Let us rejoice and give honor to him, for the 
marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath 
made herself ready. The church of Christ is called 
his bride; and the conversion of the nations to Chris- 
tianity and to God, the day of her espousals. 

That this glorious victory is to be consummated by 
the special influence of the Holy Spirit, is equally 
manifest. The simple presence of Christianity would 
no more convert the heathen, than it converts those 
where it already exists. Were every family on earth 
now blessed with a Bible and a pastor, these, without 
the effusions of the Spirit, would not maintain upon 
the earth an uncorrupt nominal Christianity, for one 
hundred years. Revivals of religion are alone ade- 
quate to the moral reformation of the world. All 
other means — science, legislation, philosophy, elo- 
quence, and argument — have been relied on in vain. 
The disease is of the heart, and they reach it not. 
But revivals touch the deep springs of human action, 
and give tone and energy to the moral government 
of God. They multiply families that call upon the 
name of the Lord and train up children in his fear; 
and churches, constrained by the love of Christ to 
propagate the Gospel. They elevate the standard 



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of liberality, and augment the capital which is con- 
secrated to the renovation of the world, and the im- 
portunity of prayer which secures its application and 
efficacy. They multiply the host of evangelical 
ministers and missionaries. They repress crime, and 
purify the public morality, and breathe into legisla- 
tion and the intercourse of nations that spirit of the 
Gospel, which shall banish wars, and introduce peace 
upon earth and good-will towards men. They pour 
day-light upon darkness, and destroy, with a touch, 
the power of sophistry. Hence nothing is so terrible 
to the enemies of evangelical truth as revivals of re- 
ligion, because nothing is so irresistible. If they 
oppose them by violence, they move on. If they 
misrepresent them, they move on. If they ridicule 
them, they move on. If they imitate them, the imi- 
tation fails, and they move on. While, often, the 
chosen vessels of opposition fall under their power — 
sending panic and rage through the ranks of the 
enemy. It is owing to this power of revivals, that 
they are every where, by the wicked, so much spoken 
against; and all the infirmities of humanity, which 
attend them, gathered up with such exultation, and 
urged as confirmation strong, that they are the work 
of man, and not the work of God. It is reserved, 
therefore, for revivals of religion to follow in the 
train of the means of grace with increasing frequency 
and power, until a nation shall be born in a day. 
This also is predicted. — Who art thou, mountain, 
before Zerubbabel? Thou shalt become a plain. Not 
by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit saith the 
Lord. Drop down ye heavens from above, and let 



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the skies pour down righteousness. 1 will pour water 
upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry 
ground. It shall come to pass in the last days, saith 
God, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. 
And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the 
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and 
loith the brightness of his coming. 

The judgments which are to shake down antichris- 
tian empires and cast down high imaginations, and 
lay open the world to the entrance of truth and the 
power of the Spirit, are to be closely associated with 
a new and unparalleled vigor of Christian enterprise. 
Until now, the church will have been the assailed 
party, and stood upon the defensive: but henceforth 
the word of command will not be, Stand, but March. 
The gates of the holy city will be thrown open; the tide 
of war will be rolled upon the enemy; and one shall 
chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight. 

The means and efforts for evangelizing the world 
must correspond, however, with the magnitude of the 
result. The idea that God will convert the heathen 
in his own good time, and that Christians have noth- 
ing to do but to pray and devoutly wait, is found in 
no canonical book. It is the maxim of covetousness- 
and sloth, and uncaring infidelity. We have no au- 
thority for saying, what some, without due consider- 
ation, have said, that God, if he pleased, could doubt- 
less in a moment convert the whole heathen world 
without the Gospel. It might as well be said, that he 
can, if he please, burn without fire, or drown without 
water, or give breath without atmosphere, as that he 
can instruct intellectual beings without the means of 



2§ 

knowledge, and influence moral beings without law 
and motive, and thus reclaim an alienated world 
without the knowledge and moral power of the Gos- 
pel. It is no derogation from the power of God, that, 
to produce results, it must be exerted by means 
adapted to the constitution of things which Himself 
has established. God has no set time to favor the 
husbandman, but when he is diligent in business; and 
no set time to favor Zion, but when her servants 
favor her stones and take pleasure in the dust thereof. 
From the beginning, the cause of God on earth has 
been maintained and carried forward only by the 
most heroic exertion. Christianity, even in the age 
of miracles, was not propagated but by stupendous 
efforts. And it is only by a revival of primitive zeal 
and enterprise, that the glorious things spoken of the 
city of our God can be accomplished. 

Nor need we be disheartened. We possess a thou- 
sand fold the advantage of apostles and primitive Chris- 
tians for the spread of the Gospel. And shall the whole 
church on earth — shall the thousand thousands who 
now profess the pure religion — be dismayed and par- 
alyzed at an enterprise, which had once been well nigh 
accomplished by the energies of twelve men? 

But what can be done? It would require ten dis- 
courses to answer this question in detail. We can only 
sketch the outlines of that moral array, by which Jesus 
Christ is preparing to come upon the strong man, 
and overcome him, and take from him all his armor. 

1. There must be more faith in the church of God. 

All the uncertainties and waverings of unbelief 
must be sw 7 ept away by the power of that faith, which 



2] 

js the substance of things hoped for and the evidence 
of things not seen. Those "scenes surpassing fable,'* 
when Satan shall be bound, and an emancipated world 
shall sing hosanna to the Son of David, must rise up 
before us in all the freshness and inspiration of a 
glorious reality. Such faith, and only such, will 
achieve again the wonders it wrought in* other days. 
It has lost none of its power. Again, it will subdue 
kingdoms, work righteousness, obtain promises, stop 
the mouths of lions, quench the violence of fire, escape 
the edge of the sword, out of weakness become 
strong, wax valiant in fight, and put to flight the 
armies of the aliens. For this is the victory over the 
world, even youx faith. 

2. There must be a more intense love for Christ in 
his church. 

Such love as now burns dimly in the hearts of 
Christians; a low, and languid, and wavering affec- 
tion; halting between the opposing attractions of 
earth and heaven; may answer for standing upon the 
defensive, but never for making that vigorous onset 
which shall subdue the world to Christ. Effort will 
never surpass desire. And as yet our hearts are not 
equal to those efforts needed for the achievement of 
victory. They linger and look back upon the world. 
They hesitate, and slowly, and with a sigh, part with 
substance in penurious measure. Weight hangs as 
yet on the wheels of the Victor's chariot: and never, 
on earth, as in heaven, will it move, 

"Instinct with spirit, 

Flashing- thick flames, unless 

attended by ten thousand thousand saints/' 



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o. There must come an era of more decided action* 
before the earth can be subdued to Christ. 

Compared with the exigency, we have not, as yet, 
the semblance of an army in the field; and our muni- 
tions are yet to be collected. Two hundred souls 
constitute the entire force, which twelve millions of 
freemen, cheered and blessed with the light of the 
Gospel, have sent forth to bring the world out of 
bondage. And yet one half the nation is panic-struck 
at the drafts thus made upon her resources! What has 
been done, however, is but mere skirmishing before 
the shock of battle. Half the subjects of Satan's 
dark empire on earth have not heard, as yet, that we 
have a being. And were none but such feeble efforts 
to be put forth, he, instead of coming down in great 
wrath, would keep his temper, and leave the war to 
his subalterns. 

Nothing great on earth, good or bad, was ever ac- 
complished without decisive action. . The cause, in 
the moral world, as really as in the natural, must ever 
be proportioned to the effect to be produced. And 
what have we done, as yet, to justify the expectation, 
that God, by such means, is about to make all things 
new? Could our Independence have been achieved by 
such indecisive actions as we put forth for the eman- 
cipation of the world? Dear brethren, we must fix 
our eye earnestly on a world lying in wickedness: 
our hearts must be fully set upon its deliverance: our 
hands must be opened wide for its relief. Not only 
the ministers of religion must give themselves wholly 
to this work; but all who prize civil and religious 
freedom — all who exult in these blessings must come 



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forth to the help of the Lord against the mighty, 
And when, to all who are now cheered by the light 
of revelation, the deliverance of a world in bondage 
shall become the all-absorbing object, and the con- 
centrating point of holy enterprise, then speedily will 
the angel descend from heaven, with a great chain, to 
bind and cast into the bottomless pit him who through 
so many ages has deceived the nations. But, 

4. For this glorious achievement, there is demand- 
ed more courage than has, in modern days, been man- 
ifested by the church of God. 

Wherever circumstances have precluded the appli- 
cation of force for the defence of his cause, there the 
god of this world has attempted to fortify it by a 
perverted public sentiment. This, while it predomi- 
nates, is as terrific as the inquisition; and if not as 
bloody, it is unquestionably as virulent, overbearing, 
and severe. Multitudes shrink before it, who would 
not hesitate to storm the deadly breach; and one half 
the power of the Christian church is doubtless this 
very moment paralyzed by it, if not even arrayed by 
its influence against the cause of Christ. Fashion is 
the Juggernaut of Christian lands; around whose car 
pilgrims of all conditions gather, and do homage. 

Here, then, in communities civilized and nominally 
Christian, is to be fought one of the keenest battles: 
for after every strong hold is demolished, if Satan 
can but frame the laws of honor and of fashion, he 
will not fail to govern by maxims which will shut out 
the Gospel, and perpetuate the dominion of sin. And 
Christians are the first to be emancipated. While 
they are in captivity, the world will be in chains, 



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Jesus Christ must have entire possession of his own 
soldiers, before the armies of the living God can put 
to flight the armies of the aliens. 

This conflict for dominion over public sentiment is 
coming on, and by this generation, in city and in 
country, it is to be decided, whether an evangelical 
or a worldly influence shall prevail— whether the land- 
marks of Christian morality shall stand against the 
inundations of vice, or, with every thing that is pure, 
and lovely, and of good report, be swept away. Em- 
boldened by the pusillanimity of the friends of virtue, 
the enemy have become audacious, and scarcely covet 
the veil of darkness, but seem even to glory in their 
shame. And if no stand is made, we are undone. 
The church in this land will go into captivity, and the 
nation is undone. Our prosperity and voluptuousness 
will be our ruin; and short and rapid will be our 
journey from the cradle to the grave. But if resist- 
ance is made, then will the waves rise, and foam, and 
roar, and dash furiously upon those w T ho shall dare to 
make a stand: and birds of ill omen will flap their 
sooty wings, and croak, and scream, to intimidate and 
dishearten the fearful, and the unbelieving: and all 
the engines of bad influence will be applied to prevent 
that coalition of patriotism and of virtue, which would 
set bounds to the encroachments of evil, and shed 
day-light upon the works of darkness, and stamp with 
indelible and intolerable infamy, wickedness in high 
places and in low places. 

And now, custom, with silver tongue, will plead 
prescription — 'It always has been so, and always will 
be, and why should we attempt innovation?' And in- 



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zerest, too, will plead necessity — 'How can I with- 
draw my capital, or alter my course? To refuse to do 
wrong a little, would be to take away my children's 
bread.' And now, difficulty, with good wishes and 
sorrowing face, will plead, 'Spare thy servant in this 
thing — is it not a little one?' While fear will see the 
giants, the sons of Anak, and call out for care, and 
prudence, lest we should act prematurely, or be right- 
eous overmuch. Petulance, too, will lift up her voice, 
with vexation at our presumptuous meddling, wonder- 
ing that we cannot mind our own affairs, and let 
other people alone. And even charity, so called, will 
draw aside her veil, for the archers with poisoned 
arrows to hit us. While liberality, provoked beyond 
endurance, will hail upon our heads the hard names 
of 'bigot, enthusiast, fanatic, hypocrite.' 

All this, however, we could easily sustain, were 
there no treachery within. But our hearts are yet in 
too close consultation with flesh and blood. 'What 
will the world think? What will the world say? How 
will it affect my reputation — my interest — my ambi- 
tion — or even my usefulness? — Suppose 1 step in as a: 
kind of candid mediator between the world and my 
too zealous brethren, taking the prudent course, and 
not carrying matters too far?' O, that prudent course, 
— that middle ground — so crowded, when the lines 
are drawing between Christ and the world! Satan de- 
sires no better troops than neutral Christians. And 
the Lord Jesus Christ abhors none more. He prefers 
infidelity to lukewarm Christianity. J would that 
thou wert either cold or hot; so then because thou art 
neither, I will spew thee out of my mouth. 
4 



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As to cheating Satan out of his empire over men. 
by a reserved course of warfare, he has no objection 
that Christians should dream about it, and try it. But 
we mistake, if we suppose our wisdom a match for 
his wiles; or that we can so prudently drive him out 
of this world, as that he will find no pretext for con- 
troversy. Whenever we do enough to give to religion 
a solemn reality upon the minds of men, and draw the 
cords of evangelical morality with such power, as 
shall compel reformation, or inflict disgrace; we must 
calculate to meet his resistance who reigns in the 
hearts of the children of disobedience. And the time 
will come, when men must take sides. For as the 
conflict between virtue and vice waxes warm, neither 
side will tolerate neutrality: and he who plants his 
foot upon neutral ground, will select just the hottest 
place in the battle, and receive the fire from both 
sides. 

Two things are required of all who would be found 
on the side of liberty and evangelical morality. One 
is, that we will not do wrong in obedience to custom: 
The other is, that we will not be accessary to the 
wrong done by others — that we will give to the cause 
of virtue the testimony of correct opinions, the power 
of a correct example, and the influence of our inflex- 
ible patronage. There are piety and principle enough 
in the community to put down the usurpations 
of irreligion and crime, if the sound part of the com- 
munity will only awake, and array itself on the side 
of purity and order. But we must come out and be 
separate, and touch not the unclean thing. The en- 
tire capital in the hands of honest and moral men. 



which is employed in establishments that corrupt 
society, must be withdrawn; and that patronage 
which has swelled the revenue of establishments that 
lend their aid to the cause of licentiousness, must be 
turned over to the side of purity and order. Until 
this is done, we shall not cease to be partakers in 
other men's sins. The press, that mighty engine of 
good or evil in a free country, must be enlisted de- 
cisively on the side of virtue; and its perverted influ- 
ence, if it continue, must be sustained only by those 
whose guilty cause it espouses. We cannot, as Chris- 
tians — we cannot, as patriots — give our patronage to 
that press which will not plead the cause of virtue, 
and which will prostitute its fearful energies to the 
cause of sin. 

5. There must be new and more vigorous efforts 
to increase the number and power of evangelical 
churches in our land. 

In all countries the tone of piety and evangelical 
morality corresponds exactly with the number, and 
purity, and energy of the churches of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. The want of this organized moral power in 
many parts of our land is appalling. Our population 
multiplies, and the ratio of good moral influence de- 
clines, and ignorance and crime are coming in like a 
flood. All that has been done by Tract Societies, by 
Sabbath Schools, by Education Societies, and by the 
National Society for Domestic Missions, is as the 
drop of the bucket to the ocean. A new and mighty 
effort is demanded to send light through the territo- 
ries of darkness — to repress crime, and perpetuate 
our civil and religious institutions. In our large cities. 



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especially, is the increase of ignorance and licentious- 
ness lamentable and ominous. Here wealth and 
temptation concentrate their power upon masses of 
mind, whose influence cannot fail to affect deeply the 
destiny of the nation. If they send out a vigorous 
current of healthful life-blood, the whole nation will 
feel the renovating influence: but if, with every pul- 
sation, they send out iniquity and death, no power on 
earth can avert our doom. 

A moral power is the only influence that can save 
our cities. Mere coercion in a land of freemen, will 
not avail. Nor will a lax nominal Christianity suffice, 
where offenders may find access to the table of Christ, 
and protection by the horns of the altar. The new 
churches, to succeed, should be composed of persons 
of real piety, of kindred sentiment, and of decided 
character; and, from the beginning, consist of so 
many members, and be blessed with such talent and 
devoted piety in the ministry, and be so countenanced 
and sustained by other churches, as that their attrac- 
tion shall not fail to bring under the sacred influence 
of the Gospel the surrounding community. Until our 
cities shall thus be made to feel, in every part, the 
purifying power of the Gospel, the whole land will 
continue to send to them, as it has done, hecatombs 
of youthful victims, to be repaid by disappointed 
hopes and moral contamination. 

6. Special effort is required, to secure to the rising 
generation an education free from the influence of bad 
example, and more decidedly evangelical. 

The atmosphere which our children breathe, from 
the cradle upward, should be pure. Instead of this, 



it would not be difficult to find common schools, in 
which ignorance and irreligion predominate. Even 
where the intellect is cultivated, the heart not ajttfre- 
quently is corrupted, and the child made wise only to 
do evil. In a great proportion of the higher schools, 
to which Christians send their children, little exists of 
a decidedly religious tendency; while in some, a pow- 
erful influence is exerted against evangelical senti- 
ments and piety. 

And though in many of our Colleges there is a sal- 
utary religious influence, and repeated revivals of re- 
ligion are enjoyed, in none is the influence of religion 
so decisive as it might be; while in some, to which 
pious parents send their children, the influence is di- 
rectly and powerfully hostile to religion. 

I am aware, that not a few regard religious influ- 
ence in our Colleges as already too great, and that 
an effort is making to separate religion from science, 
during the progress of a collegiate education. And 
those who choose to rear Colleges, and send their 
offspring where the power of the Gospel shall be ex- 
cluded, have, doubtless, a right to do so — answerable 
for their conduct only to God. But no Christian can 
do this without violating the vows of God which are 
upon him, to train up his child in the nurture and ad- 
monition of the Lord. And, instead of a compromise 
in the evangelical Colleges of our land, there should 
be, as easily there may be, a more decided tone of 
religious influence. Our Colleges should every one 
of them be blessed, not only with preaching, but with 
kind, discreet, and assiduous pastoral instruction and 
care. Why should these precious communities of in- 



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experienced youth, separated from parental inspection, 
and exposed to peculiar temptation, be deprived of 
the watchful eye and parental voice of pastoral exhor- 
tation and advice? What parent would not pray with 
more faith, and sleep more quietly, if he knew that 
some one, acquainted with the youthful heart, and 
appointed to watch over his child, had gained his con- 
fidence and affection, and was praying and laboring 
for his salvation? 

There is no period in life when the heart may be 
more successfully assailed, than that which is passed 
in a College. And there is no class of human beings, 
among whom revivals may be promoted, by proper 
pastoral attention, with greater certainty, or with 
greater power and glory. Nor can it be expected, 
that the church will ever look forth fair as the morn- 
ing, until effectual care is taken, that in her higher 
schools and Colleges, her children shall be induced to 
consecrate to God the dew of their youth. 

7. The vigor of charitable effort must be greatly 
increased. 

As long as rich men shall trust more in uncertain 
riches than in the living God, and the covetous shall 
dare to heap up treasures to themselves, consecrating 
to God scarcely the crumbs that fall from their table, 
and the ambitious shall insist that they will roll in 
splendor, and give only the pittance which can be 
spared from the expense of a wanton ostentation — as 
long as professors shall consume, in extra gratifica- 
tions of sense, to the injury of health, sums that, if 
consecrated to Christ, might suffice to extend the 
word of life and the institutions of the Gospel all over 



the world — as long as avaricious Christians shall so 
extend their plans of business, with the increase of 
their capital, as always to be straitened in the midst 
of their gains — and as long as parents shall labor to 
amass wealth for their offspring, only to paralyze their 
enterprise, and corrupt their morals, and ensure their 
ruin, — so long the cause of God on earth must move 
slowly. But the blame must rest on us. There is 
at this moment, in the hands of Christians, capital 
enough to evangelize the world in a short period of 
time, and without the retrenchment of a single com- 
fort, and only by the consecration to Christ of sub- 
stance, the possession of which would be useless, and 
often injurious. It is not required of Christian na- 
tions to sustain the entire work of preaching the Gos- 
pel to all the unevangelized population of the earth. 
Nothing is needed but to erect the standard in pagan 
lands — to plant the seed — to deposit the leaven, in 
schools and in churches, until each nation shall sup- 
port gospel institutions. This is the work to which 
God in his providence is calling the churches. Now, 
and for fifty years to come, the substance and enter- 
prise of good men is imperiously demanded. Within 
that period, it is not improbable, that every nation may 
be so far evangelized, as that the work may move 
onward to its consummation, without extraneous aid. 
8. The jealousies of Christians, who are united sub- 
stantially in their views of evangelical doctrine and 
religion, and who are divided only by localities, and 
rites, and forms, must yield, and give place to the 
glorious exigencies of the present day. The amalga- 
mation of denominations is not required. The division 



of labor may greatly augment the amount; and the 
provocation to love and good works may be real and 
salutary, and still be conducted without invidious col- 
lision. Like the tribes of Israel, we may all encamp 
about the tabernacle of God — each under his own 
standard — and when the ark advances, may all move 
onward, terrible only to the powers of darkness. 
And if the enemies of righteousness are not sufficient 
to rebuke our selfishness, and force us into a coalition 
of love and good works; then verily it may be ex- 
pected — and even be hoped — that God, by the fire 
of persecution, will purge away our dross, and take 
away our tin, until we shall love him, and his cause, 
and one another, with a pure heart, fervently. 

9. Let me add, that we must guard against the 
dangers peculiar to a state of religious prosperity. 

There is no condition in which an individual, or 
the church at large, can be exempted from tempta- 
tions. And especially as the church shall become 
formidable, and bring upon the great enemy of God 
the pressure of a desperate extremity, we are to ex- 
pect, that his rage will increase, and his wiles be 
multiplied. For he will leave the world only when 
forced; and will fight upon the retreat — giving many 
a desperate battle, when it shall seem as if the neces- 
sity was past of watching against his devices. Never, 
therefore, has the necessity of vigilance and prayer 
been more imperious than now. Let all the churches, 
then, with their pastors, feel deeply their dependence 
on God; and when their alms come up before him, 
and his Spirit shall descend in new and glorious 
showers, let them watch and pray that they enter not 



33 

jnto temptation, and experience an overthrow in the 
moment of victory. 

To fear revivals, because attended by some indi- 
cations of human imperfection, would be weak and 
wicked: and far from the church of God be the pre- 
sumptuous confidence, that nothing deeply injurious 
to the general interests of religion can be blended 
with a real work of the Spirit. But though I am not 
without solicitude on this head, I do trust and expect* 
that God will preserve his churches, and cause pure 
religion and undefiled to prosper, and not permit the 
adversary to turn our glory into shame. O, could he 
do it, how would his minions scream out their joy! 
and how would Zion be confounded, and in this day 
of rejoicing, be compelled to hang her harp upon the 
willows, and sit down to weep in" sackcloth and 
ashes! To conclude, 

Will any of you, my hearers, in this glorious day, 
take side against the cause of Christ! It will be a 
fearful experiment. What the mind and counsel of 
God have purposed to do for the melioration of man is 
now hastening to its consummation, with the intense- 
ness of infinite benevolence, under the guidance of 
unerring wisdom, and by the impulse of Almighty 
power. And wo unto him who contendeth with his 
Maker. — The lines are now drawing, and prepara- 
tion is fast making for the battle of the great day of 
God Almighty. And who is on the Lord's side? 
Who! Will any of you, in this sublimely interesting 
moment, stand on neutral ground! Remember, that 
neutrality is treason: and if persisted in, is as fatal as 

the unpardonable sin. Jesus Christ will have the decide 
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ed services of his people. Already has he denounced 
as enemies, all who will not labor and suffer for him. 
He that is not for me, is against me: and ivhosoever 
shall deny me before men, him ivill I also deny before 
my Father which is in heaven. Think not that I came 
to send peace on earth; (that is, that the progress of 
truth will be without resistance and persecution;) I 
came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come r 
(that is, the effect of my coming will be, as the 
gospel prevails,) to set a man at variance against his 
father, and the daughter against her mother; and a 
man's foes shall be they of his own household. He 
that loveth father or mother more than me, is not 
worthy of me: and he that taketh not his cross, and 
followeth after me, is not tvorthy of me. He that 
findeth his life, shall lose it; and he that loseth his 
life for my sake, shall find it. These statutes are 
not repealed. And if the laws of Christian disciple- 
ship could bind men to give up every relative, and 
even life itself, for Christ and his Gospel, no excuse, 
surely, will screen from condemnation those who 
flinch and temporize, where the sacrifices required are 
comparatively trivial. If such as would not lay down 
their life for Christ, can not be accepted — what will 
become of those, in Christian lands, who will not lay 
down their substance, nor risk their reputation, nor 
lift a finger, to advance his cause? 

Is there a Christian here, who cannot, for the year 
to come, double the amount of his charities? Is there 
one who will not now purpose in his heart to do it? 
Brethren, the time is short in which we here have 
opportunity to express our boundless obligations to 



the Saviour. The fashion of the world passeth awa) . 
Next year, our tongue may be employed in celestial 
praises; and our substance be in other hands. What 
remains then, but that this day we dedicate ourselves, 
and our all, anew, to Him, who washed us in his 
blood? The tone of feeling which we cherish to-day, 
may, by a holy sympathy, and by the power of the 
Holy Ghost, be propagated through this great city- 
through this powerful nation — and through the world. 
The augmented religious enterprise, to which w T e 
pledge ourselves this day, may tell quickly in the 
very heart of Satan's empire; and cause light to spring 
up in retreats of deepest darkness. 

If any man, however, is smitten w r ith fear, let him 
retreat. If any man is faint-hearted, let him draw back. 
If any man tremble at his proportion of the charges 
for evangelizing the whole world, let him depart. If 
any man is alarmed at the noise which precedes the 
last conflict, let him hide himself, with his talent, in 
the earth! But let all who love our Lord Jesus Christ 
in sincerity, and wait for his appearing and glory — 
give themselves anew to his service; and break the 
earthen vessel; and lift up their light; and shout, The 
sword of the Lord and of Gideon: and the victory, 
and more than the victory, shall be given to the 
people of the saints of the Most High God. And a 
great voice out of heaven shall be heard, saying, 
Behold, the tabernacle of God is icith men, and he 
will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and 
God himself shall be with them, and be their God- 



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